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Whipping up a firecracker

Leon Challis-Davies is a chef who loves to cook with wild ingredients in the open air

I always look forward to April and the start of the roebuck season. Roe meat is much sweeter than fallow and red, and it has a finer texture that makes it ideal for burgers. That sweet caramelised venison smell and flavour was all I could think about at 5am as I drove to meet Stuart Eborall of Warwickshire Wild Game. I was drooling, knowing that the day’s breakfast was to be a mouthwatering, juicy breakfast burger — a McVenison, perhaps?

“My hands were clammy and the standing still seemed interminable”

The huge success of Warwickshire Wild Game’s Firecracker burger at this year’s Stalking Show inspired

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